"The Contributions of Businesspersons to Economics"
Duke University
113 Social Science Building
Friday, November 13, 2015
Program
8:45 Welcome and Introduction. (Pastries, coffee, and other breakfast items will be available.)
9:00-9:45 "Business Practitioners and Early Political Economy"
Sophus A. Reinert (Harvard Business School)
10:00-10:45 "'It Was Their Business to Know': British Merchants and Mercantile Epistemology in the Eighteenth Century"
William Deringer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
11:00-11:45 "Capitalist Threads in Marxian Political Economy: Engels the Businessman and Das Kapital"
Tiago Mata (University College Londong) and Rob Van Horn (University of Rhode Island)
11:45-2:00 Lunch (catered)
2:00-2:45 "Businesspersons and the Making of American Econometrics, 1910–1940"
Thomas A. Stapleford (University of Notre Dame)
3:00-3:45 "The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Commonsense of Capital"
Marion Fourcade (UC Berkeley) and Rakesh Khurana (Harvard Business School)
4:00-4:45 "Where Do the Numbers Come From: Creating Doubt on Contingent Valuation"
Harro Maas (University of Lausanne)
6:00 Dinner, Piedmont, 401 Foster Street, Durham, NC